About the Authors

Vipin Shankar

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-174, Edobashi, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Hiroki Hori

hhori@clin.medic.mie-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-174, Edobashi, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Kentaro Kihira

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-174, Edobashi, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Qi Lei

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-174, Edobashi, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Hidemi Toyoda

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-174, Edobashi, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Shotaro Iwamoto

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-174, Edobashi, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Yoshihiro Komada

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-174, Edobashi, Tsu, Mie, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VS HH. Performed the experiments: VS. Analyzed the data: VS HH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VS HH KK QL HT SI YK. Wrote the paper: VS HH.